FIVE-DIMENSIONAL DUST COLLAPSE WITH COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. GHOSH ◽  
D. W. DESHKAR ◽  
N. N. SASTE

We study the five-dimensional spherical collapse of an inhomogeneous dust in the presence of a positive cosmological constant. The general interior solutions, in the closed form, of the Einstein field equations, i.e. the 5D Tolman–Bondi–de Sitter, is obtained which in turn is matched to the exterior 5D Schwarzschild–de Sitter. It turns out that the collapse proceeds in the same way as in the Minkowski background, i.e. the strong curvature naked singularities form and thus violate the cosmic censorship conjecture. A brief discussion on the causal structure singularities and horizons is also given.

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 707-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. GHOSH

We investigate the occurrence of naked singularities in the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud in an expanding de Sitter background — a piece of Tolman–Bondi–de Sitter space–time. It turns out that the collapse proceed in the same way as in the Minkowski background, i.e., the strong curvature naked singularities form and thus violate the cosmic censorship conjecture. Our result unambiguously support the fact that the asymptotic flatness of space–time is not a necessary ingredient for the development of naked singularities.


2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 2747-2747
Author(s):  
A. BEESHAM

The singularity theorems of general relativity predict that gravitational collapse finally ends up in a spacetime singularity1. The cosmic censorship hypothesis (CCH) states that such a singularity is covered by an event horizon2. Despite much effort, there is no rigorous formulation or proof of the CCH. In view of this, examples that appear to violate the CCH and lead to naked singularities, in which non-spacelike curves can emerge, rather than black holes, are important to shed more light on the issue. We have studied several collapse scenarios which can lead to both situations3. In the case of the Vaidya-de Sitter spacetime4, we have shown that the naked singularities that arise are of the strong curvature type. Both types of singularities can also arise in higher dimensional Vaidya and Tolman-Bondi spacetimes, but black holes are favoured in some sense by the higher dimensions. The charged Vaidya-de Sitter spacetime also exhibits both types of singularities5.


2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 155-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. F. C. BRANDT ◽  
L.-M. LIN ◽  
J. F. VILLAS DA ROCHA ◽  
A. Z. WANG

Analytic spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein field equations coupled with a perfect fluid and with self-similarities of the zeroth, first and second kinds, found recently by Benoit and Coley [Class. Quantum Grav.15, 2397 (1998)], are studied, and found that some of them represent gravitational collapse. When the solutions have self-similarity of the first (homothetic) kind, some of the solutions may represent critical collapse but in the sense that now the "critical" solution separates the collapse that forms black holes from the collapse that forms naked singularities. The formation of such black holes always starts with a mass gap, although the "critical" solution has homothetic self-similarity. The solutions with self-similarity of the zeroth and second kinds seem irrelevant to critical collapse. Yet, it is also found that the de Sitter solution is a particular case of the solutions with self-similarity of the zeroth kind, and that the Schwarzschild solution is a particular case of the solutions with self-similarity of the second kind with the index α=3/2.


Author(s):  
Marta Dudek ◽  
Janusz Garecki

In the paper we show that the general relativity in recent Einstein-Palatini formulation is equivalent to a gauge field. We begin with a bit of information of the Einstein-Palatini formulation and derive Einstein field equations from it. In the next section, we consider general relativity with a positive cosmological constant in terms of the corrected curvature. We show that in terms of the corrected curvature general relativity takes the form typical for a gauge field. Finally, we give a geometrical interpretation of the corrected curvature.


Solutions of the Einstein field equations are found for the problem of a sphere of constant density surrounded by matter of different constant density. The solutions are discussed and particular attention paid to the topology of the surrounding matter. The Schwarzschild, de Sitter, and Einstein solutions emerge as particular cases of the general problem.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaokai He ◽  
Jiliang Jing ◽  
Zhoujian Cao

Gravitational radiation plays an important role in astrophysics. Based on the fact that our universe is expanding, the gravitational radiation when a positive cosmological constant is presented has been studied along with two different ways recently, one is the Bondi–Sachs (BS) framework in which the result is shown by BS quantities in the asymptotic null structure, the other is the perturbation approach in which the result is presented by the quadrupoles of source. Therefore, it is worth to interpret the quantities in asymptotic null structure in terms of the information of the source. In this paper, we investigate this problem and find the explicit expressions of BS quantities in terms of the quadrupoles of source in asymptotically de Sitter spacetime. We also estimate how far away the source is, the cosmological constant may affect the detection of the gravitational wave.


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